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Re: [ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/Cuckaroo29m miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs 16.1.0
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EK701
on 12/04/2020, 19:03:37 UTC
We're pleased to release Bminer 16.1.0.

* Support for BFC and Cuckatoo32.


Thank you for the Cuckatoo32 support!  I've been using Bminer for Cuckatoo31 for a long time.

That said, Cuckatoo32 mining is not very stable.  I'm running Ubuntu with Nvidia 1080ti cards.  It runs good for about 5 minutes, then it has GPU issues, where it can't communicate with one ore more of the GPUs.  I'm using the exact same config as Cuckatoo31.  I've tried reducing OC, but that doesn't seem to make a difference.

Mining Cuckatoo32 using gminer is more stable, but the hashrate is 20% lower and CPU usage is much higher.

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Re: I Turned My Rigs Off...
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EK701
on 03/05/2019, 02:18:38 UTC
At least for the summer.

I run a small farm of ASIC A9 Zmasters and they were heating my shop and giving me a decent profit over the winter but even at $0.06 a KW it will cost me too much to run them through the hot weather. So I'm drinking Bushmill's, smoking a Cuban cigar, and crying a little.

Want to sell them?
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Re: Innosilicon PSU failing?
by
EK701
on 23/07/2018, 03:19:07 UTC
Anyone have any updates on possible PSU fixes?
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Re: Innosilicon PSU failing?
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EK701
on 13/07/2018, 19:07:17 UTC
which models tend to fail? 1400W, 1600W?

i am in contact with the manufacturer with the PSU, so please provide me some informations:
How long did the PSU ran without problems 2 weeks/months?
Which model exactly? its written on the stickers
How is your failure rate?

Innosilicon model G5118-1200W
First one died within 1 hour.  The second one died in about 24 hours.  2/2 dead.
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Re: Innosilicon PSU failing?
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EK701
on 08/07/2018, 18:11:06 UTC
The problem is a failed MOSFET on the secondary, which fails short. Thankfully the PSU has short circuit protection, that's why you hear the click. Check the output with a multimeter, you will likely see a shorted output. If so then the fault is most likely one of these MOSFETs.

This can be repaired pretty easily with a hot air rework station, some experience doing these sort of repairs, and some patience as the MOSFETs are pretty solidly soldered to the board and surrounded by large copper planes. An easy way to check to see which MOSFET failed is to probe between the gate and the drain or source (just use a nearby heatsink); the failed MOSFET will show ~4.4ohms lower, as the working units will pass through two 2.2ohm resistors in series, the failed one will be low impedence to the source and drain. I took a working MOSFET from one failed PSU and transplanted it into another, and now I have a working PSU and another PSU for spares.

Do you know the part number on the failed MOSFET?  Can you describe where they are on the board?  I have two that died in less than 24 hours, but I haven't decided if I should file an RMA with InnoSilicon, or just fix them myself, so I haven't cracked them open yet.

Thanks!
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Re: EthMonitoring \ EthControl (EWBF, Claymore's, CCMiner, AntMiner, Android/iOS)
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EK701
on 06/02/2018, 19:36:55 UTC
I installed EthControl for Linux on my SMOS/EWBF rig and the hash rate went to crap.  I went from 700+ sol/s to 200 sol/s per card and it didn’t recognize the last card.  Any suggestions on how to fix this?  Or can I just run monitoring somehow, as SMOS already manages the configuration side of things?

Thanks!


Hey, i think you runned two instances same time mby?

That could have been the case.  How do I just monitor a Linux based rig?
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Re: EthMonitoring \ EthControl (EWBF, Claymore's, CCMiner, AntMiner, Android/iOS)
by
EK701
on 06/02/2018, 18:16:50 UTC
I installed EthControl for Linux on my SMOS/EWBF rig and the hash rate went to crap.  I went from 700+ sol/s to 200 sol/s per card and it didn’t recognize the last card.  Any suggestions on how to fix this?  Or can I just run monitoring somehow, as SMOS already manages the configuration side of things?

Thanks!